Slashdot: Dealing
with RMS's Vim Attitude - Fortune

Slashdot: Dealing
with RMS's Vim Attitude

Recently, Richard Stallman gave a speech in which he illustrated
an academic point about programming history by quoting a guy who
described vi as 'an editor spread at sword-point and which is
really hard to use'.

I think I speak for all moderate vi(m) users when I say -- DEATH
and DAMNATION (in that order) to this Cardinal of the CTRL key!
Needless to say my own local vim user group has dispatched
assassins to kill Mr. Stallman, but this is hardly the end of the
story. The fact is that a man has referred to another man who in
turn expressed some often-voiced reservations about OUR EDITOR! On
behalf of all editors of text everywhere, I implore EMACS users to
return to the true path, lest you be burned at the stake and then
go to hell, the Buffer From Which There Is No Unloading. We'll see
how productive you are then, with your ctrl-meta-alt and your ELISP
and your 'ring buffer', whatever THAT is.